It’s always amazing to me how much they were able to get away with in that Castlevania anime. Ostensibly the plot of the final season was that a whole bunch of vampires were conspiring to resurrect Dracula and the heroes had to stop them. But that was sort of happening in the background of a bunch of other scenes…

I don’t know, by the end I felt that they went a bit too far and saturated the viewer. You could tell that the writers were in love with the character, but he came very close to overstaying his welcome in the story, at the expense of other stories that ended up feeling half-baked.

This is Titanfall 2 all over again. I have no idea as to the quality of this game in particular, but EA’s chickenshit, hamfisted approach to marketing and scheduling continues to absolutely boggle my mind. Like, how fucking stupid do you have to be to try and cram a AAA release up against 2 other AAA releases? Against…

1. Don’t put any effort into advertising or selling the game.
2. Have an absurdly high sales expectation for the game.
3. Predictably, the game does not sell well.
4. Blame the developers who had nothing to do or say about the marketing and advertising of the game.
5. Lay half of them off.
6. Pay yourself their salary and…

Only ad for this game I saw was an embedded ad in a maker channel I follow on YouTube, he was making a 3D printed replica of the not-a-gun that the protagonist fires spells with. When he’s doing the obligatory intro about the game talking under gameplay footage, he says “you play as Jack” and the most generic looking…

Given the investment in it I suspect what happened was as it neared the point you’d spin up a marketing campaign they realized the game was going to struggle and decided to cut their losses.

This was pretty inevitable.

They hardly did any advertising for the game, I didn’t know it existed until shortly before it released. The marketing gave the impression like they didn’t care that much about it.

Until I hear otherwise, I’m going to believe that Stig left because the 10 year exclusivity window for Star Wars is over for EA and that a competitor saw his work and wants him to helm their next big Star Wars venture :)

yeah it’s PR for impending bad news about this guy. “careful thought and consideration” bwahahahah

Hmm. A surprisingly cold message for a departing director of your best studio at the moment. Either he's jumped ship to a competitor or he had issues with management or the studio. 

After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck.

I don’t know who, and I don’t know in what context, but I do know from this that SOMEONE is a nightmare to work with.

The romance is so nice in BG3! So far I’ve just been enjoying the cute lil comments Shadowheart makes whenever I talk to her. Like awww girlie’s in love!

Counterpoint: Long Rests can actually cause you to fail quests, even when nothing happening immediately around you is obviously time-sensitive.

And the sad thing is Bethesda and other companies will keep doing it because they know there is a legion of modders that will fix their mess for free, which is just plain wrong. I do appreciate the work that modders do, but it should not be their responsibility to fix the game. I know it won’t happen, but sometimes I…

It is worth issuing a disclaimer that when you long rest make sure nothing pivotal is actively happening on-screen.

Imagine you wanted to get laid but you have to wait until the evening before the final boss.

Idk as someone who has been married for a number of years the idea that sex is somehow the endpoint of a relationship that needs to be built to is really weird, and I wish more games would do away with that. Like, a functioning relationship is an equilibrium where not too much happens.

I don’t bone down with strangers. I need a bit of trust and respect first before I feel comfortable enough for any intimacy. I might not make you go through the whole mission chain, but we’re at least going on a few quests and doing some dialogue checks. I also need to know you’re not a loot goblin.